Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Fish Batter Fry or Fish Orly -- Bengali Style






The Anglo-Bangla Fish Fry







Fish Batter Fry or Fish Orly


Make a paste of
2-3 fat cloves of garlic,
1 tbsp of peeled & chopped ginger,
2 green chili

Alternately marinate with
1 tbsp of ginger paste(homemade)
1 tbsp garlic paste


Marinade the fish pieces with
the paste from step 2,
1 tbsp of vinegar, 
squeeze of a quarter of lime


For the batter

In a bowl sift
1 Cup of All-Purpose Flour/Maida
salt to taste
pepper powder to taste

To it add
1 egg beaten
1 Cup of  Water
1 tsp of vegetable oil


Now heat enough oil for deep frying


Eat 'em hot.

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  1. Wonderful write up . Although fish fries are still there and there are several outlets which sell them, fish orly is equally popular these days . Incidentally I also grew up in a suburb called chandannagire and my growing up years had seen fish fry as a delicacy

  2. To me fish fry/orly is synonymous to "biye bari". The main attraction in the menu. My mother always used to stop me from eating more than one fish fry her logic "fish fry kheye pet bhorasna pore aro bhalo jinis asche seta khete parbina" I still regret that...good post sandeepa as always

  3. Dear Sandeepa
    How are you ? Thoroughly enjoyed the write up (as always) . To be very frank, I havent developed a taste yet , for the fish orle, but I make for others.. Will try your recipe, already vetki fillet has arrived . By the way , that 1/4 tsp sodi bicarb is more than enough, for this , guess why !! Stretch your knowledge a bit back to college chemistry , Gas volume, moles, Charles law , Boyle's law etc etc ..ha ha
    bhalo thheko

  4. I never liked the fish orly either. Like you said, I found it too greasy. I was a huge fan of the fish fry though. I'll never ever make fish orly because I will never achieve that crusty, crisp outer coating. Mine always ends up less crisp, less airy and unimpressive looking. Even my begunis are no way close to the choper dokaner beguni.

  5. Is there any other way to have the similar mouth watering taste without deep frying it? Of course we'll not get the biye bari taste.

  6. If fish orly or fish fry was on the biye-bari menu, the entire ordeal of decking up and going to the biye-bari would seem pointless. I love fish orly as much as fish fry, but only at biye-baris, where they would serve you right off the kadai! Yum!

  7. this is good one kindly send more details to manish@q8living.com

  8. I wish I could have one from the picture. It is mouth watering.

  9. Dear Sandeepa thanks for sharing this. I remember having this in Bijoligrill in south Kolkata for the first time with Russian Salad!!!


  10. Your write up always makes me nostalgic and makes me feel how much i miss kolkata.thank you for sharingyour experience abt fish fry.just loved it

  11. I think 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of baking soda is ok. just instead of plain water use chilled beer or chilled soda water to get that light crisp texture. it worked for me.

  12. Did not strike me that fish butter fry is actually fish batter fry :)...Thought the batter is actually a lot of butter , hence called so :D

